Kimbriki LFG flare project

Kimbriki LFG flare project is a landfill gas capture and combustion project located in Terrey Hills on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, NSW, approximately 25km north of the Sydney CBD. Registered in September 2015, the project is situated at the Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre. The region's land use consists primarily of semi-urban development, protected native coastal bushland, and municipal resource recovery. The Northern Beaches area experiences a high-rainfall coastal climate, with soils predominantly derived from Hawkesbury Sandstone, typically featuring sandy loams and heavy clays.

The project operates under the Carbon Farming Initiative-Landfill Gas Methodology. Landfill gas projects involve installing active gas collection systems to capture methane generated by the anaerobic decomposition of both legacy and non-legacy organic waste. Standard requirements dictate that the captured methane must be combusted through a flare or an electricity generation engine. Because methane has a global warming potential more than 20 times higher than carbon dioxide, combusting it into carbon dioxide and water significantly reduces the site's overall greenhouse gas emissions.

The project varied its methodology to Compilation No. 1 in July 2022. The project initially secured a Carbon Abatement Contract (CAC101989) with a fixed delivery obligation of 79,000 ACCUs, which was successfully completed in April 2023. The facility continues to be highly productive; a market report in May 2024 highlighted a single issuance of roughly 32,000 ACCUs to the site, bringing its lifetime generation to nearly 100,000 ACCUs. The proponent, Kimbriki Environmental Enterprises Pty Ltd, is majority-owned by the Northern Beaches Council (96%) and Mosman Council (4%). The proponent also actively drives broader emissions reductions by installing commercial solar PV systems across its eco-house and waste processing facilities.